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New comment by euccastro in "State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis"

euccastro — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:07:50 +0000

OTOH, it's fortunate that the people that like those things get one obvious place to meet.

New comment by euccastro in "State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis"

euccastro — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:59:06 +0000

Besides the JVM part, this is my take on it: as a language, Racket defines a vast possibility space, which is a superset of that defined with Clojure. You could implement Clojure (barring the JVM) quite naturally in Racket, while the other way around would be impractical. Now, Clojure is a pretty sweet spot in that design space, and someone else has done the immense work to carve it out, define it, implement it, and foster a sizable community around it.

New comment by euccastro in "State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis"

euccastro — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:41:53 +0000

And sometimes I can do fine with no wrapper at all. Not only there's a lot of JVM code available, but interfacing with it is pretty quick, straightforward and smooth compared to wrapping C (or, god forbid, C++) from any Scheme I tried. I found that's very important. You can have lots of code theoretically available for wrapping, but there's more of an impedance mismatch between C and Scheme (think continuations/TCO, garbage collection, type conversion, and the fact that some tools in Racket/Scheme ecosystems will be blind to what happens in C land) so in practice it's a lot more work.

New comment by euccastro in "State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis"

euccastro — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:13:40 +0000

Nah, you'll be fine.

New comment by euccastro in "Inside Clojure's Collection Model (2016)"

euccastro — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:19:52 +0000

If you're interested into digging deeper, this just came out:

https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-collections/

New comment by euccastro in "Words for “yes” in Romance languages"

euccastro — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:42:23 +0000

Echoing back the verb is a common way to reply affirmatively in Portuguese and (traditional) Galician. I hear that was common in Latin too. For some old Galician people, replying "yes" to a question is comprehensible but a mark of rudeness.

New comment by euccastro in "Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in Barcelona islamic terror"

euccastro — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:07:35 +0000

https://twitter.com/Juanmi_News/status/898599542001733633

New comment by euccastro in "Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in Barcelona islamic terror"

euccastro — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:47:02 +0000

http://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/barcelona/comunidad-musulma...

New comment by euccastro in "Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in Barcelona islamic terror"

euccastro — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:00:05 +0000

Alternate title if we're going to point fingers:

"Tom's Hardware Italy editor killed in terrorist act claimed by organization created, funded and armed by the US and some of its puppet states."

I think it's more accurate too.

New comment by euccastro in "Ask HN: What was Python 1 like?"

euccastro — Sat, 06 May 2017 21:04:26 +0000

I remember no big changes, nor any breaking changes, from Python 1.5.2 to Python 2. The major version bump was mostly a marketing move. At that time, a 1.x.y version number didn't look mature enough for some companies.

New comment by euccastro in "Fidel Castro has died"

euccastro — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 03:09:09 +0000

Hasta siempre comandante!

<3 <3 <3

New comment by euccastro in "How to Overthrow a Government [video]"

euccastro — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:13:29 +0000

Yeah, why not?

(Holy f* s*)

New comment by euccastro in "Virtual currencies can be exchanged tax-free in Europe after court ruling"

euccastro — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 03:54:07 +0000

Maybe "bank-issued" currency is more accurate for the more traditional kind?

New comment by euccastro in "Reykjavik Center Map"

euccastro — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 01:13:55 +0000

So apparently they really did close Sirkus[1], but they didn't tear down the house and build anything in its place?

[1] :´(

New comment by euccastro in "Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video]"

euccastro — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:58:41 +0000

Could you elaborate on Varoufakis' confrontational manners? I think you may be misattributing to Varoufakis some moves by other actors in the Greek government.

As for high stakes... well, the stakes for someone coming into the finance ministry of Greece in this Europe are huge no matter how you look at it.

New comment by euccastro in "Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video]"

euccastro — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:47:47 +0000

I don't suppose you mean that discussion is futile because our sources are tainted?

In this case Varoufakis is saying pretty much the same he used to years before he had any political responsibility.

New comment by euccastro in "Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social"

euccastro — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 01:11:04 +0000

FWIW, @barbijaputa is a contraction for "Barbie hija puta", which would be literally translated as "Barbie, daughter of a whore", although it's best understood as "Barbie the bastard". See her profile pic:

https://twitter.com/barbijaputa

New comment by euccastro in "Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment"

euccastro — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:03:53 +0000

It's not like they're having a lot of trouble pushing around Spain either...

New comment by euccastro in "Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment"

euccastro — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:37:49 +0000

A non-difference is that most of those loans went to service old loans anyway. And the main reason Greece can't get loans on the markets is because its current debt is obviously unsustainable and its position as a deficit country in a badly designed monetary union is hopeless.

New comment by euccastro in "Greece draws up drachma plans, prepares to miss IMF payment"

euccastro — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:31:50 +0000

I'm not disagreeing categorically, but I don't think it's that one-sided.

I was (i) considering the cascading effect of a Greek exit from the Euro, and (ii) thinking in relative terms: I'm not arguing that Germany will be worse off, but perhaps it has more to lose at this point.

Re: the cascading effect:

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2011/08/04/why-italy-why-spain-and...

I'm aware that this article describes the dynamics of countries going to the receiving side of EFSF, not of countries leaving the Euro altogether, but I think the perverse dynamics described apply to the latter too.

Relying heavily on exports, as Germany does, may mean you have more to lose in a crisis like this. Consider what happens after a few more European countries stop generating demand for German goods, at the same time that demand from the US is weak too. Demand from the rest of EU and from the US was a big part of what made Germany 'a country like Germany'.

https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/NationalEconomyEnvir...

Yes, imports would be unaffordable for Greece with the new currency and that will generate a lot of pain (not that devoting a big share of the national budget to servicing debt is helping a lot), but that will also force the country to correct that imbalance, making what's left of local industry more competitive. That pain would be a price to pay for adapting to a more self-reliant setup, while the one currently being endured (mostly on ideological grounds, I claim) seems more pointless.

Re: tourism, having their own currency to devaluate might help with that.

Re: standard of living, it's not like Greece's current situation, and their prospects within the demands of the memorandum are rosy either.

Corruption and nepotism won't help, but they aren't helping within the Euro either. If anything, those problems are made worse in colonial economies, which the deficit countries in Europe have been, for good and ill, to a large extent.

All in all, a Greek exit from the eurozone is a big lose-big lose proposition for anyone. I don't think it matters a whole lot who stands to lose more. But to the extent that it matters, I think it must be considered in relative terms. Overall, Germany has a better deal in the Eurozone than Greece, and it has more to lose.